Essay | Youth along the Mississippi

The two main characters throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain portray many great characteristics that a youth possesses and experience things that most youth often face. The first main character is Huckleberry Finn, a young boy who is living with The Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, who is trying to "civilize" him or make him to be what the perfect child should look like and make him act how the perfect child should act. Huck does not want that. He just wants to live how he wants, just like most youth want. His father is a drunk that was never around for him. Huck lacked a parental structure in his life, he just had surrogate parents. The other main character in the novel is Jim, one of Miss Watson's slaves. He has been a slave there for a while. Even though Jim is...
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